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Future Battery for the Electric Car

Watching lithium sulfur batteries in action with an X-ray microscope, Stanford researchers have shown that when sulfur forms polysuflites during use only a small amount of enters the electrolyte. It’s enough to produce a large capacity loss. Armed with the facts, we’ll have better batteries within the decade.

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Bullet over Bonneville

Bullet over Bonneville

A student-built, battery-powered racer aims not only to break the world land speed record but to be the world’s first electric car to hit 400 mph.

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3 Emerging Trends in <br />Automotive Engineering

3 Emerging Trends in Automotive Engineering

Current trends in automotive engineering largely focus on improving engine efficiency and fuel economy.

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Internal Combustion Engine Division (ICED)

The Internal Combustion Engine Division of ASME has been promoting the art and science of mechanical engineering of engines, encouraging and fostering research and development for mobile, marine, rail, generation and stationary applications and summarizing and publishing reliable data concerning these pursuits since 1921.

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Automotive is the science and engineering field of developing and improving personal transportation. The automotive industry is highly globalized, intensely competitive, and very diverse. Dozens of vehicle producers turn out hundreds of models, which change every few years. Worldwide vehicle production peaked in 2007 at about 73 million and then fell to 61 million in 2009. China produced 18.3 million vehicles in 2010; the U.S. was number 3 with about 7.8 million.

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